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The Facebook logo is displayed on their website in an illustration photo taken in Bordeaux, France, February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

Facebook: Likely Russia-Based Operation Bought US Ads with Political Message

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 7, 2017 | Technology

Social media network Facebook said on Wednesday it had found that an operation probably run from Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of US ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May. Facebook said 3,000 ads and 470...

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This file photo taken on December 28, 2016 shows logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook in Vertou, France. / AFP PHOTO

Facebook Tests Adding News Stories Customized to Users’ Interests

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 19, 2017 | Technology

San Francisco, London- Facebook Inc is testing a feature in the Facebook News Feed that provides customized links to news on topics of interest to individual users, as the company continues to search for ways to increase the amount of time that people spend using the...

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S. October 31, 2016.

Information, Technology Shares Rise to Unprecedented Levels

by Mutlaq Muneer | Aug 5, 2017 | Business

London- Prices of information and technology shares stabilized this week, following seven trading sessions that witnessed consecutive rise by which the index sector reached a new historic level. S&P index of this sector recorded an unprecedented level of 995...

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Brother Li, founder of the live-streaming agency Wudi Media, poses in his bedroom in Shenyang, China, in May. (Gilles Sabrie/For The Washington Post)

How to Make $100,000 a Month in China?

by Emily Rauhala | Aug 2, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

SHENYANG, China — Yu Li is ready for his close-up. Hair: poofed. Face: powdered. Any minute now, he will be live on camera, raking in the cash. From a studio in the northern city of Shenyang, Yu, who goes by Brother Li, spends hours a day broadcasting on YY, a social...

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Social media and tech giants have exerted more efforts to combat cyber-terrorism. (AFP)

International Initiative to Confront Extremism over the Internet

by Emile Amin | Jul 31, 2017 | Features

Cairo – It appears that the confrontation against terrorism and extremism will extend for a long time, which demands that new mechanisms to fight these phenomena be devised. This is necessary since the state of global terrorism at the end of the second decade of the...